“In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.”

—  Edward Bouverie Pusey

Letter to Charles Dodgson, Jan 1851, following the death of Dodgson's wife.
Quoted in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 48

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